Working Life

   I’m as critical of the Democratic Party has anyone. But, we need to keep in mind that, on a daily basis, it can matter somewhat, at the margins, who is in charge. This would never happen under Republican rule: The National Labor Relations Board announced on Friday that it planned to sue Arizona, South […]

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   Today, The Wall Street Journal had a story entitled "Unions Push Issues in State Capitals". The story told a tale of unions trying to move legislation that advances "card check" protections and similar measures that would make union organizing more fair.    What struck me were the last two paragraphs of the story: The […]

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   You can decide for yourself why you think David Paterson did this (for true love of unions or a brazenly political move…or both) but it is still a good thing: Gov. David A. Paterson has issued an order making it easier for labor unions to organize thousands of workers at some of New York’s […]

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A reader sent along a link to a reprint from HR Magazine, a pro-management newsletter. The article looks at the state of labor. I didn’t find most of the analysis very interesting or new particularly the section about the AFL-CIO versus Change To Win, and the management quotes were pretty standard fare. This little snippet, […]

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A reader sent along a link to a reprint from HR Magazine, a pro-management newsletter. The article looks at the state of labor. I didn’t find most of the analysis very interesting or new particularly the section about the AFL-CIO versus Change To Win, and the management quotes were pretty standard fare. This little snippet, […]

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    A long-time reader alerted me to this yesterday (and asked: "why haven’t I written about this?" To which I said to him–and say to all–open up your own blog here and get cracking…I can’t do everything, you know, and there are a lot of smart and connected people out there who have something to […]

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    There is an interesting piece in The Los Angeles Times today (where yours truly finds himself, surfboard at the ready). The United Farm Workers union is pushing for a state law that would allow card check for union representation elections in California for farm workers. If you wonder why they can do so–the farm […]

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I was going to write about the fragility of the global economy but I’ll leave that to tomorrow (I don’t think it’s going to collapse in 24 hours so I should be able to squeeze my thoughts in before it does) because my colleague Andy Levin of the AFL-CIO passed along the article below from […]

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